Estates: An Intimate History - Couverture souple

Hanley, Lynsey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1862079099 ISBN 13 : 9781862079090

Editeur : Granta Books, 2007

Synopsis

Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink and violence - the social ills they were built to cure. How did homes built to improve people's lives end up doing the opposite? Is their reputation fair, and if so who is to blame? Inhabitants? Politicians? Planners? Architects? Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and 70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from 'Homes Fit for Heroes' to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lynsey Hanley was born in Birmingham and now lives in London. She regularly writes for the Observer, Telegraph, New Statesman and many others. Estates: An Intimate History is her first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862079099
• ISBN 13: 9781862079090
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible